Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:31:01PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:
> 
> "Mr Powell said he was representing "the newest country and the oldest 
> democracy","-Apparently Mr Powell is not aware of the Hellenic/Greek 
> Democray, dated around 300 BCE; when "we" coined the term. His grasp of 
> history, is as poor as his American argument for a war, against Iraq. --GG

I recently heard a term for this kind of political attack: "drive-by
political commentary".

I think it's fairly obvious that Mr. Powell meant the United States is
the world's oldest _active_ democracy as it's been in existence since
1787 or 1789 depending on whether you consider the current government
to begin with the signing of the Constitution or the first election of
a president.  Your argument is rather like claiming that the Guiness
Book of World records is incorrect when it names the "oldest living
human" since the Bible says Methuselah lived to the age of 969.  Of
course, if you have evidence that Greece has been under a democratic
government since 300 BC, I'm sure many historians would be ecstatic to
hear your evidence.

Have a nice day.

-- 
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
  Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.